Combined door stop and holder.



J, M. SPENCER. COMBINED DOOR STOP AND HOLDER.

APPLIQATIONIILBD AUG. 21, 1908. I

Patented May 11, 1909.

ttoznoqa I 7 E H. i 0 I l 4 I umrnn srarns JAMES M. sPENoEaoF OAKLEY, MIonieAN, ASSIGNOR To EDWARD o. EWEN,OF SAGINAW, MICHIGAN.

ooMBnvEnnoon s'rer AND HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 11, 1909.

Application filed August 21, 1908. Serial No. 449,689.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES M. SPENCER, a

citizen of the United States, residing at, Gale.

' expensive in construction, facile inopera tion and devoid of complicated parts; the

provision of a device which shall combine in a novel manner, means for stopping a door by mural impingement, with means for holdin a door by contact with the floor.

With these objects in view, together with others which will reveal to those skilled inthe art, the invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement otp. arts here inafter described, delineated in tie accom panying drawings and. particularly pointed shows in perspective my invention attached to a door, and operative to act as a door holder; Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section Fig. 2 is a'horizontal section.

In carrying out my invention, I provide a base plate 1, adapted to be fastened to a door; the base plate 1 may be provided with openings adapted to receive ordinary screws 2 as shown. Attached to the base-plate 1, and normally dis osed thereto, is the standard 3, which may e formed integral with the plate 1, by a flexing of the said plate, or otherwise. The bufier 4] may be ofany shape or size I have shown it in the ordinary spherico-conical form, terminating outwardly in the resilient tip 5. The buffer 4 is slotted as shown by the numeral 6, and within the slot thus'formed, is, mounted the terminal of the standard 3. The base of the buiier 4 is provided with alined openings adapted to register with an opening in the outer end of the standard 3, and through these openings is passed the pintle 7, a pivotal connection belng thus formed, permitting the outer end of the buffer 4 to move through. an are limited as hereinafter described.

iounted upon'the inner end of the buffer 4 preferably by the screws 13, is the foot lever 9, having a slot 8 in registration with the slot 6 in the bufier 4. The length of the slot 6 is such that when the butter 4 is turned dowmvardinto engagement with the floor 14,

as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the foot lever) will clear the outer end of the standard 3; and when the buffer 4 is turned upward, the upper end of the slot 8 will come into contact withthe upper edge of the standard 3, as shown in Fig. 2, limiting the upward movement of the buffer 4 upon the pintle 7, to a position normal to the base plate 1.

I further provide the oppositely disposed springs 10, shown in the drawings in helical form, having their outer ends 11 attached to the outer end of the bufier 4, their inner ends 12 attached to the base plate 1. The ends 12 are attached to the base-plate 1 at points above the pivotal connection between the buffer 4 and the standard 3, and their effect is, therefore, to pull the outer end of the butter 4 u ward when the points of attachment for tl fe ends 1 1 have passed, in their u Ward movement, the plane occupied by t e points of attachment for the ends 12 and the center ofthe pintle 7. This upward movement of the outer end of the bufi'e'r 4 under the tension of the springs 10, is limited by the contact between the end of the slot 8 and the upper edge of the standard 3, as hereinbefore explained. When the outer end of the buffer 4 is moved downward until the points of attachment for the ends 11 have passed in their downward movement, the plane occupied by the points of attachment for the ends 12 and the center of the pintle 7 ,the springs 10 will tend to pull the outer end of the buffer 4 downward, and the said buiier will then be held yieldingly in a position, substantially parallel to the base-plate 1, and downwardly inclined.

The buifer 4 stands normally atrright angles to the plane of the'base-plate 1 and in this position it is \operative to protect the Wall and the door from injuries resulting from their contact with each other when the door is swung open forcibly. When it is dev the tip 5 into contact with the floor.

sired to hold the door intermediate to extreme positions, pedal pressure may be applied to the foot-lever 9, whereupon the buffer 4 will be turned downward, bringii ng \e verse pressure will swing tip 5 free from the floor and place the device in a position operative to exercise its function as a door stop. By the construction herein described and shown in the accompanying drawings, it will be seen that when my invention is in use as a door-holder, the tip 5 is held yieldingly against the floor, thus obviating the possibility of tearing a carpet or marring a polished floor surface. N hen however, the device is usedas a door stop, the buffer 4 is held rigidly in a position at right angles to the base-plate 1, the tip 5 contacting with the base-board when the door is swung back.

I am aware that it is not new to provide a door stop which may be turned downward to serve as a door-holder, and I make no effort to claim the combination broadly.

3 V hat I do claim as novel, is;

1. In a device of the class described, a base-plate adapted to receive door-engaging means; a standard attached to the base plate and normally disposed thereto; a bufler pivotally mounted upon the standard, the said butler having a slot in its inner end ada ted to receive the terminal of the stan ard; mounted upon the inner end of the buil'er, a

foot-lever having a slot in registration with the slot in the bufier, the upper end of the slot in the foot-lever adapted to contact with the upper edge of the standard when the bufier is in a position normal to the baseplate; resilient means adapted to hold the upper end of the slot in the foot-lever in contact with the upper edge of the standard, and to hold yieldingly the buffer substantially parallel to the base plate, and downwardly inclined, in successive positions of the buffer. 2. In a device of the class described, a base-plate adapted to receive door-enga ing means; a standard attached to the base plate and normally disposed thereto; a bufl'er pivotally mounted upon the standard; oppositely disposed springs having their outer ends attached to the outer end of the bu fi'or, their inner ends attached to the base plate at points above the pivotal connection between the butler and the standard; means for holding the buffer rigidly against the tension of the springs, in a position normal to the baselate. P In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afiiXed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES M. SPENCER Witnesses:

STEPHEN 'W. VJIGKIIAM, Tnos. H. RAUGE. 

